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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z S, Rich Rockaway Boro, New Jersey Joined: April 14, 2000 Shep fan since: 1960 Discovered Shep: Guest No: 88 S., Jeff Bradenton, Florida Joined: October 18, 2000 Shep fan since: 1961 Discovered Shep: Guest No: 266 S., Gary Cincinnati, Ohio Joined: December 25, 2000 Shep fan since: 1975 Discovered Shep: Guest No: 365 S., Rich Berkeley, California Joined: July 25, 2003 Shep fan since: 1956 Discovered Shep: On the Radio Guest No: 1017 Comments: I just,with painful nostalgia,read aloud Ole Wortermelon Time, by the Hoosier Poet, James Whitcomb Riley and fondly remember Shep reading it. I read a story in the New Yorker today by David Sedaris,whom I like and think is really pretty funny, and I said to myself this guy tells a story about as good as Jean Shepard did (and JS did it hundreds of stories a year for decades-astounding). I've also found great success over the years leading "I'm the Sheik of Arabie (without no pants on) " around whatever campfire I find myself at. Sabella, Patty Conroy Oceanside, Formerly Stuyvesant Town, NYC, New York Joined: November 02, 2000 Shep fan since: 1959 Discovered Shep: Guest No: 278 Sabo, Walter New York City, , New York Joined: October 07, 2008 Shep fan since: 1962 Discovered Shep: On the Radio Guest No: 2780 Comments: Thanks for the hard work of this site. What he did for my generation is give us permission to challenge and question and challenge and question. A grown up, not a bearded stoned kid, saying "Don't believe it, kid." I still challenge and question. Thank you Jean. Sabo, Margaret Munster, Indiana Joined: December 25, 2008 Shep fan since: 1969 Discovered Shep: Read his Playboy short stories Guest No: 2812 Comments: I grew up in Hammond. Went to Hammond High. Shopped at Goldblatt's. Saw the Christmas Story at the Town Theater in Highland the year it was released. I knew this would be a magical forever classic story. Jim is right about Mr Shepherd - he told stories that were so personal that you felt included. What a guy. Sacher, Mike Kansas City, Missouri Joined: November 30, 2008 Shep fan since: 1955 Discovered Shep: On the Radio Guest No: 2795 Comments: I'm at a loss on the year I first heard Shep. I chose 55 by default. Born in 51 in Newark, one of my earliest memories was my father tuneing in. Hooked for life. In the late 60s I would attempt to get the show on the "Bounce", something you can't do with a digital receiver only analog will do. Thanks for this site, I can continue to listen to Shep, until senility turns me into a "Day Person" Mikie Sadler, Jim Sunderland, Massachusetts Joined: March 01, 2004 Shep fan since: 1962 Discovered Shep: On the Radio Guest No: 1232 Comments: I was just starting high school in Springfield, Mass and became friends with a co-member of the track team, Richard Grey. My career as a track star was about as stellar as might be suspected from a budding Shep fan, but Dick became a good friend until he graduated and moved on. Early on, though, he discovered Shep one night on WOR and we both became hopelessly addicted. My gratitude to him for that is eternal. And I'll always have a soft spot for that little black with gold trim, fake leather, portable transistor radio that I used to beat the crap out of every night trying to keep the signal coming from waaaaay down there in New York City. After all, this was still AM, my radio was cheap and to me Springfield must have been the last frontier for receiving the bits and pieces of signal that made it to my antenae. How many nights would I lie there in a dark room huddled around my radio hooked on a story like the great frog invasion, only to have the signal fade. The positions me and my radio took trying squeek out enough signal to finish the story would make a Yogi weep. Luckily, Shep followed me out of high school, into college and beyond. In Boston, I lost the signal much to my horror and I'm not quite sure when he left WOR, but I think perhaps sometime in the late 60's. To make up for it, though, he landed on public radio occasionally and my design teacher had been in New York and was a great Shep fan and had even participated in the I Libertine event as I recall. Shep followed me to St. Louis as a regular feature on public radio there (rebroadcasts of old shows). And when I returned to Boston, one of my children's theater students became a cast member of that incredible PBS story about Shep's teenage romance - one of the funniest films I've ever seen. 'The Christmas Story' was the cherry on the cake, since finally I could talk about Shep with just about anyone without having them go cross-eyed on me. AND I could share a bit of that experience with my kids, for which I am ever grateful. However, nothing will ever top those sweltering summer nights, holed up in that crappy cave dwelling of an apartment building I called home during my high school years in the early sixties, groaning and contorting with that little black box that provided entrance to a whole new state of consciousness...banging and rattling, working the knob like a seasoned safe-cracker, until I could hear those three words that made life right again...Excelsior! You fathead! Saepia, Joseph Glen Cove, New York Joined: November 23, 2000 Shep fan since: 1966 Discovered Shep: Guest No: 305 Safina, Tony Shepherdsville, Kentucky Joined: February 20, 2005 Shep fan since: 1978 Discovered Shep: On the Radio Guest No: 1438 Comments: Jean Shepherd and Joe Frank are the two most entertaining radio monologists I have ever heard. Sain, Damona Lansdale, Pennsylvania Joined: December 28, 2003 Shep fan since: 1964 Discovered Shep: On the Radio Guest No: 1176 Comments: Many a night I'd lie in the darkness, alone in my room, listening to Shep. What can I say? As an adolescent, I loved his irreverance. He dared to say things I never could. His ever changing diatribes, sound effects, and the ways he mocked commericals all held my rapt attention for years. My biggest adventure was a stealth trip to NYC in the mid 60's with a friend in the wee hours of the AM, searching out the Bitter End in order to see his live show. It was over by the time I reached it, but there was Shep--about 15 feet away, in intense conversation with those at his table. I remember thinking that even though he laughed often on his show, he never even cracked a smile while I was sneaking looks at him there. Thanks to Harry Shearer (sp?), who did a tribut to Shep after he died. Sain, Damona , Pennsylvania Joined: December 28, 2003 Shep fan since: 1963 Discovered Shep: On the Radio Guest No: 1177 Comments: Whoops...was it the Limelight, not the Bitter End, in which he did his live shows? Salerno, Chris Dallas, Texas Joined: January 16, 2009 Shep fan since: 1967 Discovered Shep: On the Radio Guest No: 2827 Comments: Looking back sometimes I think I imagined it all, and the details get fuzzy. But the MP3 file brought it all back. Thanks for validating my memories. I discovered the Saturday night broadcasts from the Limelight, and I was so disappointed that it was not there when I returned to the scene of the crime in 2002. His memory lives on. Flick lives. Salkowitz, Joe Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Joined: October 07, 2000 Shep fan since: 1960 Discovered Shep: Guest No: 250 Salomon, Gary Salomon Howell, New Jersey Joined: July 18, 2000 Shep fan since: 1964 Discovered Shep: Guest No: 144 Salomon, Edw. South Orange, New Jersey Joined: February 06, 2001 Shep fan since: 1958 Discovered Shep: Guest No: 431 Salowitz, Neil West Des Moines, Iowa Joined: May 05, 2003 Shep fan since: 1965 Discovered Shep: On the Radio Guest No: 961 Comments: I can't believe this! What a great thing to find this site, and other ShepHeads! I was one of those kids with the six-transistor radio under the covers in the sixties, listening to Shep via WOR. (I lived in Connecticut at the time, and WOR came in with just the touch of hiss and static that made Shep's stories even more exciting.) I've missed his voice...both the sound, and what it said to me. Shep was one of those people who had a profound influence in my life. I'm a professional storyteller because of him. I'm a ham radio operator because of him. I'm a happier person because of his stories. I'll be back to this site often. Saltzman, Gordon Newark, Delaware Joined: November 16, 2001 Shep fan since: 1964 Discovered Shep: Guest No: 734 Salvia, John Pitman, New Jersey Joined: December 11, 2004 Shep fan since: 1978 Discovered Shep: Read one of his books Guest No: 1375 Comments: Jean Shepherd was introduced to me my senior year of high school, 1978, in a english class called "Satire and Search For Eutopia." I never connected with english classes or english teachers before this. "Wanda Hickey's night of golden memories" opened up the world of "enjoyable literature" to me. Despite my learning disabilities, he helped me discover that there are authors that write so vividly, anyone can get it. I often laugh so hard when I read his stories, I have to wipe the tears from my eyes. I too feel I got to know Shep personally through all his works. I was grieved to hear he died. The announcement was a quick, and unfittingly brief notation that I heard on the radio several years ago. I'll always wish he was still with us. Samson, Bill Philly, Pennsylvania Joined: September 22, 2004 Shep fan since: 1982 Discovered Shep: Saw One of His Movies Guest No: 1323 Comments: would love to find a copy of Great American 4th of July any ideas where to find? Sanchelli, Barbara Parsippany, New Jersey Joined: September 12, 2000 Shep fan since: 1967 Discovered Shep: Guest No: 223 Sanchez, Jose Vero Beach, Florida Joined: November 22, 2002 Shep fan since: 1963 Discovered Shep: Guest No: 780 Sanchez, Joe Vero Beach, Florida Joined: May 13, 2004 Shep fan since: 1963 Discovered Shep: On the Radio Guest No: 1250 Comments: I Spent 25 years in small markets as a radio announcer (sports play by play- deejay) and one of the major reasons I went into radio was Shep's influence on me as a kid. I had an opportunity to meet him when he performed a benefit show for WSOU Radio at Seton Hall Univ in South Orange,NJ while I was an undergraduate communication major. I was more or less one of his "bodyguards". I found him to be very unaffected and rather warm towards we novice announcer. Recently here in Florida I talked with Jim O'Grady who either owned or was a big executive with WOR during Shep's days and when I asked him about Shep his first response was,"probably the only real genius I ever knew." Thanks for keeping his work and memory alive. Radio had class and style during Shep's days, and he was the classiest and most stylish of them all. Sanders, Terry Oakland, California Joined: April 10, 2001 Shep fan since: 1965 Discovered Shep: Guest No: 531